Bomb squad team in Beni Suef has thwarted a bomb planted next to the Pentecostal Church in Beni Suef. A man was arrested and is currently being investigated.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, has visited the shrine of St. Maurice in Switzerland.

Prosecutor of northern Cairo decided to release Yasser Borhamy, Vice Chairman of the Salafist call, who was accused of contempt of Christianity and described the Copts as infidels.

Qena police department investigates the kidnapping of Coptic merchant and his son who were kidnapped yesterday in Waqf City, Qena.

Youth Committee of the Council of the Churches of Egypt launches the third season of Coptic got talent competition 2014.

Land of Coptic man has been seized in Bashtil village, Assiut, by gunmen.

Armed gangs have increased its activities by kidnapping more and more Copts in Minya and Qena.

Beni Suef Criminal Court sentenced Imad Abu Zeid, Al-Ahram reporter in Beni Suef for three years in prison.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, called Copts in Switzerland to pray for Egypt that is getting better.

Dr. Mina Thabet, founder of Popular Initiative party, said that Copts in Minya have paid more than 120 million LE ransoms for kidnappers since the revolution of January 2011.

Bawaba News website headed by Dr. Abdul Rahim Ali decided to change its policy towards Coptic businessman Naguib Sawiros whom he attacked couple of weeks ago.

Mayor of Shubra has decided to punish all merchants at the Good Shepherd corridor by closing all shops there.

Abba Bemwa, bishop of Suez ordained new deacons in Suez.

Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that representatives of the sister Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church as well as the Mayor of Miran in Geneva have received Pope Tawadros II, who is currently visiting Switzerland.

During celebrating the holy mass today in St. Mary Church in Geneva, Switzerland, Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, baptized two children.

Police in Alexandria have arrested 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood who formed a terrorist cell to disturb public order by cutting the roads off and causing traffic jam.

Association of Victims of abductions and Enforced Disappearances invited Egypt to sign the International Convention for the protection of persons and put it into action in Egypt as soon as possible.

Police have arrested Hani Mohammed Abdel Moez, 36, on charges of burning 108 shops in the Good Shepherd corridor in Shubra, Cairo.

An al-Qaida-inspired militant group in Egypt has posted an online video showing the beheading of four men in the Sinai Peninsula accused of spying for Israel, whose bodies were found earlier this month.